Record Number: 2273

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palace, Venice: 'This was the thing that first struck my imagination in Venice ... more ... than Schiller's "Armenian" -- a novel which took great hold of me when a boy -- it is also called the "Ghost Seer" ..."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

George Gordon Lord Byron

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

22 Jan 1788

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

Agnostic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Johan Christoph von Schiller

Title:

Geisterseher

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In translation by W. Bender as The Armenian, or the Ghost-seer (1800)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2273

Source:

Print

Author:

George Gordon Lord Byron

Editor:

Leslie A. Marchand

Title:

Byron's Letters and Journals

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1976

Vol:

5

Page:

203

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

George Gordon Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (ed.), Byron's Letters and Journals, (London, 1976), 5, p. 203, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2273, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Further information on edition read from note 3 to this letter on p.203 of source.